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...learned hardship early in life with the death of one brother and the debilitating illness of another. Oh, yes--he was admitted to Harvard, but he couldn't afford to come. He later met Harvard, through a government professor, Henry Kissinger...
...this young man pulled the trigger remains a mystery. It is true that under the neoliberal program furthered by President Salinas, the poor--a very sizeable part of the population--have experienced increasing hardship, even as the overall economic climate in the nation has regained vigor. The recent rebellion in Chiapas has brought attention to the fact that social justice must be addressed...
Harding has much at stake. Especially for women, figure skating is a big- money sport. Harding has said that when she skates, she often sees dollar signs. After a ragged childhood (her mother has married seven times, her father left home in 1985), she yearns for the limousine life. Hardship, she told TIME, "made me know the reality of money, that you might have some one day, and the next day it could all be gone." It's hard to know whether any of her dreams will survive when the headlines and lawsuits have faded, though plans to film...
From the beginning it was widely understood that humanitarian aid was not going to resolve a war of such ethnic-based savagery as Bosnia's. But aid was deemed sufficient to straighten out Somalia, where the fighting was considered to be the result of hardship. Yet as both cases demonstrate, in the continued absence of concerted political and military initiatives for peace, humanitarian-aid workers are losing the war against misery. The West will pay a high price for that defeat in a loss of credibility, loss of capacity for effective action, loss of the right to call itself civilized...
...focused on public policy. And along with that has been the clean car, or maybe a tiny bit on joint research. But it's principally public policy. That is, at this point in time. And within that I'd put health care -- that is this industry's biggest competitive hardship, compared to the rest of the world . . . We're covering people in half the cities in this country...